Biography
Solo Performance and Exhibitions
2022 'Everyday Mandalas' - HeArTs Gallery, Torbay Hospital, Torquay, Devon
2022 ‘The Dog Walk Project - Part 2’ - Words & Pictures Gallery, Teignmouth, Devon
2021 ‘The Dog Walk Project - Part 1’ - Words & Pictures Gallery, Teignmouth, Devon
2019 ‘The Fried Egg Café’ - for Somerset Art Works, Taunton Together, Taunton, Somerset
2019 ‘The Fried Egg Café’ - for Somerset Art Works, Bridgewater Together, Bridgwater, Somerset
2018 'The (Cake) Stall of AlternativeThoughts', 'Canteen' @ TOPOS, Art Week Exeter
2018 'The (Cake) Stall of AlternativeThoughts', 'Artistic Research Will Eat Itself' SAR 9th International Conference, Plymouth
2017 'Performing Plaiting' - Performance, 'Between', Peninsula Arts, Rowland Lewinsky Building, Plymouth University
2017 'Performing Plaiting' - Performance, MA Show, Plymouth Art Weekender, Mills Bakery, Royal William Yard, Plymouth
2016 ‘Sitting on the Throne for Breathing’ - Performance, Plymouth Art Weekender, Mills Bakery, Royal William Yard, Plymouth
2015 ‘The Fried Egg Café’ - Interactive Performance and Edible Art Experience, Crosspoint, Plymouth University
2014 ‘Rubbish’ - Birdwood House, Totnes, Devon
2013 ‘Masala Mandala’ installation exhibited as part of SOAS Multi-lingualism Week,
SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London.
2012 ‘The Moving House Art Sale’ - An Open House Art Sale, Islington, London
2007 ‘Conception Cake Café’ - An Open House Edible Art Experience, Islington, London
2006 ‘Mandalas and Mandorlas’. - The Literary Cafe, Islington, London
Exhibitions of Education and Community Residencies and Projects
2022 ‘From Lace to Space - 200 Years of Tiverton History’, Knightshayes Court - National Trust, Tiverton, Devon
2020 ‘Foster Family Stories’, AWEsome Artspace, Paris Street, Exeter
2020 ‘Foster Family Stories’, Online Exhibition https://daisi.org.uk/foster-family-stories-exhibition
2018 'Re-boot' Uncovering Exeter's Layers of History, St Stephens Church, Exeter
2018 'Museum Machina', Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
2017 'A Collage of the Blackdown Hills' Hemyock Healthy Living Centre, Hemyock, Devon
Artist Residency - Blackdown Hills Natural Futures Project
Curator
2018 'Canteen' @ TOPOS, Exeter Art Week
2013 ‘Parallax’ - an Exhibition by Artists of Mixed-Heritage and Mixed-Ethnicity
Curator, and Participating Artist, Mile End Art Pavillion, London www.mixed-other-art.net
2012 ‘Mixed-Other’ - an Exhibition by Artists of Mixed-Heritage and Mixed-Ethnicity
Curator, and Participating Artist, Islington Arts Factory, London www.mixed-other-art.net
Collaborations
2020 'Ethno-Constitutionals' Film collaboration with Helen Snell, commissioned by The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth
2011 ‘Eve’s Pursuit’, Islington Arts Factory, Islington, London - with Samantha Miller
2010 ‘Goldilocks meets Pandora’ - Islington Arts Factory, Islington, London
2010 ‘The Garden’ - Islington Exhibits Festival - collaboration with musician Vanessa Vie, Park Life Café, Islington
Group Exhibitions
2023 'Ritual Touch' curated by Ella S Mills and Lorna Rose, with Gladys Paulus and Ingrid Pollard, MIRROR Gallery
2022 Eden, with Luci Coles, sculptor, and Vicki Gardener, photographer, Artizan Gallery, Torquay
2021 'English Riviera Winter Open' Artizan Collective Gallery, Fleet Walk, Torquay
2020 'Ethno-Constitutionals' 5x5x5 Series, Online Exhibition, The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth
2020 'Black Holes and Umbellifers', FIFTY BEES: The Interconnectedness of All Things, Black Swan Arts Centre, Frome, Somerset
2019 'Oprah Winfrey Is My Mother' The Care Trail, Crediton, Mid-Devon
2018 'Canteen' @ TOPOS, Exeter Art Week
2017 'Between', Peninsula Arts, Rowland Lewinsky Building, Plymouth University
2017 MA Show, Plymouth Art Weekender, Mills Bakery, Royal William Yard, Plymouth
2017 MA Contemporary Art Practice, Gradution Show, Royal William Yard, Plymouth
2017 ‘Being Human 2’, 'AWE' Art Week Exeter, Preston Street Union, Exeter, Devon
2016 ‘Being Human’ - part of Plymouth Art Weekender, Mills Bakery, Royal William Yard, Plymouth
2016 ‘Fictive Dreaming’ Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
2015 ‘Convergence’ 101 Space, Rowland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
2013 ‘Parallax’ - an Exhibiton by Artists of Mixed-Heritage and Mixed-Ethniciity - Curator, and Participating Artist
Mile End Art Pavillion, London www.mixed-other-art.net
2012 'Encircling Life' with Luci Coles and Vicki Gardener. Cockington Court Gallery, Torquay
2012 10 x 10 - Gloss Art Gallery, Exeter, Devon
2012 ‘Mixed-Other’ - an Exhibiton by Artists of Mixed-Heritage and Mixed-Ethniciity - Curator, and Participating Artist,
Islington Arts Factory, London www.mixed-other-art.net
2012 ‘Fantastic February Fair’, Islington Arts Factory, Islington, London
2011 ‘And Now for Another One’ - Brent Artists Resource, Willesden Library Centre, London
2008 ‘Representations of Identity’, Women’s Art Movement, Islington Arts Factory, London
2006 ‘Distributing Dictionary Definitions’ - Bob and Roberta Smith’s Peace Camp,
Interactive Event, The Brick Lane Gallery, London
Publications
2017 'Fictive Dreaming and Wondering.....' page 4, Praxis Press 2017, Singapore
https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/sites/default/files/2018-07/2.4_praxis-press_publication_2017.pdf
2018 'The (Cake) Stall of Alternative Thoughts' page 111, SAR 9th International Conference Proceedings.
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/512748/512749
2016 'The Book of Alternative Thoughts', Edition of 6, one held in the Artist Book Collection at Plymouth University Library
2013 'par.al.lax' An exhibition by artists of mixed-heritage and mixed-ethnicity - Exhibition Catalogue - copies available on request
2012 'mixed-other' An exhibition by artists of mixed-heritage and mixed-ethnicity - Catalogue - copies available on request
Education
2014 - 2017 MA Contemporary Art Practice, University of Plymouth
1991 - 1992 PGCE, Art & Design, (Key Stages 3 & 4), Institute of Education, University of London
1986 - 1989 BA. Honors Degree, Fine Art Painting, Wimbledon School of Art, London
1985 - 1986 Foundation, Art & Design, College of Arts & Technology, Newcastle upon Tyne